Keeping Farm Kids CLEAN *picture overload*

[thespinningcottage]

<--------------- Here's Little Avatar at her happiest! She's never had headlice, pinworms, scabies, or skin rashes. Hmmm....... Dirt is good for kids!

 

[ChickensInTheNorthWoods]

By the end of the day we were all to dirty to use the camera!
My wife had to throw out the outfit my DD was wearning because it was destroyed during our dirt hill sledding contest - We had just read a book about otters and it looked fun! I llove that both my kids play in the dirt, and are at home building forts in the woods rather than hanging out indoors all day.

 

[deb1]

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Your wife should have kept the outfit so that it could be reused for outdoor play. That is what I always did.

 

[EweSheep]

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Your wife should have kept the outfit so that it could be reused for outdoor play. That is what I always did.

I hAve two parts of clothes in my DD;s drawer, one is for at home play which she can "mud ruin" them and others are her town clothes.

Works for me and I figured by now, I would need to get rid of her "mud" clothes and they are washed and ready to go. She does not fit in them today and Salvation Army does not take them. So how would I list them on freecycle then?

 

[Wifezilla]

Free rags?
LOL

 

[StupidBird]

this post has brought back some very found memories. thanks.
I have been hosed off before being allowed inside as a kid, and so have my own kids. It all comes off in the bath. I remember being scratched and splintered and bloody from the day's adventures - never a problem after a nightly soak in the bath. I wonder how hard it was to get the bathroom clean again after sisters and I were done!
There's play clothes, school / town clothes, and what was left of the play clothes after I got done with 'em!

 

[HorseFeathers]

Ewww, dirt!

JK. I like nothing better than coming home dirty and smelling like a horse after a day of barn work.

 

[emvickrey]

I was a mud lover when I was a kid. Especially during the rain. I would get in the mud puddle acover myself with mud then let the rain wash it off. Then back to the mud. I made mud cakes, mud pies, mud cookies with rocks for chocolate chips. I've picked so many pebbles out of my knees from crashing my bike because I was riding it through the muddy ditches.

These days parents are so worried about germs a kid can't be a kid. They can't play in the rain, don't play in the snow. You'll catch something. Come in the house your wet, change those cloths. Wash your hands, don't touch that. Who knows who touched it before.

Geez-O-Petes. They carry around their little bottles of hand sanitizer. EWW YUCK, money is dirty. No wonder we have all there illnesses that the doctors can't cure with all that hand sanitizer around.

 

[ChickensInTheNorthWoods]

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Your wife should have kept the outfit so that it could be reused for outdoor play. That is what I always did.

I hAve two parts of clothes in my DD;s drawer, one is for at home play which she can "mud ruin" them and others are her town clothes.

Works for me and I figured by now, I would need to get rid of her "mud" clothes and they are washed and ready to go. She does not fit in them today and Salvation Army does not take them. So how would I list them on freecycle then?

It was not worth keeping - it wasn't just dirty we slid so much that she had holes in it!

Gives meaning to the saying - Play Hard!

 

[PortageGirl]

emvickrey, I see your point, but some dirt IS dangerous, just not good clean backyard dirt, jump in, splash, roll, whatever you want... when it comes to things other people spread around though, especially when they don't teach their children to wash hands after using the bathroom, not being careful in public etc, that's a different story. That's when sanitizer is ok, just don't need it forgood clean yucky fun dirt!